On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:00 PM, kashyap gada <kashyapgada@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Linux Newbies, I'm one too. I was looking out for some clean up work > and I ran the checkpatch.pl script. I came across a file with some 400 > errors and 200 warnings. Now there were bunch of 80 char per line warning , > braces and related things. I don't want to be sending patches for each and > every error or warning I fix as it becomes tedious and If i send lots of > correction patches in one go the kernel maintainers wont accept it. I want > to know Can we correct all similar errors or warnings in one patch? or > series of patches? Regarding 80 chars per line issues, people are discussing right now on increasing the limit to 100. See [1]. For the other issues, just send a patch with all the changes. It should be fine since you are modifying one single file. thanks, Daniel. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/5/141 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
